Do not believe the good reviews that are posted to this site. When I moved out I had several residents who I had never even met congratulate me and state how they could not wait to get out. This complex is completely infested with roaches, and as far as I can tell, I had one of the few apartments that did not get a bedbug infestation. The management will offer to call the exterminators whenever you wish, but as you can read from the other posts, it is a joke. The roaches never go away and moving everything from your kitchen and back again becomes pointless very quickly. But since the buildings are so infested, you'll be doing it anyway since the exterminators will be stopping by every couple of months anyway. They also have periodic bedbug inspections, which again is a joke since you'll probably get them anyway.
GMU STUDENTS- Avoid this place like the plague. The rent is cheap, but IT IS NOT WORTH IT. Live on campus, find another place, but don't move in here. The posts on here that are supposedly written by GMU students must be from the management. I met several people who had to throw away all of their furniture because they got infested by bedbugs, apartment managers included.
The post below is correct: if you want to get out, do some research and threaten legal action. For those who may be reading this and considering renting here, if you do rent at Layton Hall, you will be looking for a way out sooner than later. Or at least for a way to stop waking up with cockroaches on your face.
There are many other things about this place that I could write about (all of them bad) but I think the other posts pretty much sums them all up. The time I spent there was a nightmare. The only good thing about the place is the location, but the trade off is that you'll never want to go back to your apartment.
A final note is that while the rent is cheap, the utilities will make up for it. IF your air conditioning and/or heater works, they split the utilities among all of the tenants of the building. So if you never turn on your heat or a/c, you'll still pay $100-$130 a month because you pay by the square footage of your apartment, not by what you actually use. That is the explanation I was given by the management.
Some of the posts mentioned mold- yes, it is all in the walls and heating ducts. The management company will deny this as well, but they have also had to let several people out of their lease because of the mold causing health problems.
Do yourself a favor and avoid this place. Check back on this site in a couple of months, read some more of the posts, and you'll thank yourself for not moving here.

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 11/03/2008
I agree completely.
From: snickerdoodles	Date: 11/03/2008
It's obviously always the same person writing. Move on and think of something positive to do. Every time someone writes something nice you write something negative. Stalk much? Live and let live.

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